Street-car



(No Model.)

C. J. REYNOLDS.

STREET GAR. No. 333,158. Patented Deo. 29, 1885.

UNITED STATES CHARLES J REYNOLDS, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN OR, BY DIRECT .AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE REYNOLDSl MANUFACTURING COM- PANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

STREET-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,158, dated December 29, 1885.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES J. REYNOLDS, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Street-Cars, of which the fol' lowing is a specitcation.

This invention has for its object to provide improved means for protecting the occupants of open street-cars from rain, and also to pro io Vide inside curtains, whereby the passengers at the ends of the seats may shield themselves from the sun.

To these ends the invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l represents a side elevation of the body of an open streetcar provided with my improvements. Fig. 2

zo represents a transverse section of the same.

The same letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I provide the sides of an open street-car with curtains a a,

mounted on rollers rr, which are journaled in brackets aflxed to the upper portion of the car, and are preferably provided with springs adapted to rotate them and roll up the curtain like the rollers of window-curtains in 3o common use. Each curtain and its rollers may extend along the entire length of the car; but I prefer to provide two rollers and curtains, as shown in Fig. l, because a single curtain would be too heavy to be easily rolled up,

excepting by a spring too powerful to allow the curtain to be easily pulled down. The curtains are provided with holes at' their lower edges,adapted to engage studs ee on the lower portion of the car. Any other suitable de- 4o vices may, however, be employed to fasten the cu rtains when they are drawn down. Each curtain is provided with vertical slits s, coinciding with the spaces between the seats and between the roof-supporting standards c c.

Each slit is of sufficient length to permit a ters.

person to pass through it in entering or leaving the car, so that no raising of the curtain is required. y

It will be seen that when the curtains a a are needed they may be very quickly placed in 5o position for use, and when not needed they may be as quickly raised.

b b b represent independent curtains, one for each space betwen the standards c c. Said curtains are hung on rollers r, which are journaled on brackets inside ot' the standards c. The passengers at the end of the seats can control the curtains b, which will exclude the sun, and may also be lowered when the curtains a a are lowered, to exclude wind that may enter 6o through the slits s, although it is found that in practice little or no wind or wet will enter through said slits, the sides thereof being kept taut by the force of the springs in the rollers 1".

g represents a sheetrnetal gutter extending entirely around the roof of the car, and preventing the water from dripping off at the sides and ends of the roof. Conductors h h, secured to the end standards, c, and extending from the gutters to the bottom ofthe car, car- 7c ry off the water that accumulates in the gut- It will be seen that the curtains a and the gutters and conductors effeetually protect the passengers from rain.

I do not limit myself to the use ef gutters and conductors on open cars, since they may be applied as well to box-cars.

In box-cars the gutters g need only be at the bonnet-s or projecting portions of the roof at 8c the ends of the car.

I claiml. A street-car provided with apertured or slitted curtains a at its sides and fastening devices for said curtains, as set forth.

2. A street-car provided with rollers r r at the sides, curtains a a, having slits s on said rollers, and fastening devices for said curtains, as set forth. l

3. A Streetcar provided with rollers r r, 9o

having operating-springs, curtains a a on said In testimony whereof Ithave signed my name rollers having slits s, and fastening devices for to this speeifeation,in the presence of two sub. said curtains, as set forth. soribing Witnesses, this 15th day of August,

4. An open-sided street-car having a series l 1884. of independent inside curtains, b, and continnous Curtains a, having slits s s, the curtains CHARLES J. REYNOLDS. b covering said slits, as set forth.

5. An open street-ear having :L gutter, g, on Witnesses: its roof, conductors h, extending downwardly C. F. BROWN, 1o from said gutters, and outside curtains, a, pro- H. BROWN.

vided with slits s at its side, as set forth. 

